West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-08-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

DTOtutfS.
The state of New York maintains fourteen
insane asylums
Moro than 800 persons had mumps at one
time in Rome, Mich, recently.
The legal rate Of interest will be 9 per
cent. in Michigan after Sept. 25.
The first American lodge Of FreeMasons
was established in Boston July 80, 17SS
It is said there are more causeless and cruel
evictions in New York city than in Ireland.
Idaho has population of sc, 900 and thirty
three newspapers. one to every 2, 400 inhabit-
ants.
An elevated road is to be built in Los
Angeles and operated by electricity to Mon
rovia.
Twenty sportsmen of Foster county, Dak.,
turned out the other day and killed 1881 60
pliers.
A failure to vaccfnate is punished at
Phoenix, A. T., by $500 fine or six months
In Jail.
Three miles OF bookcases, eighteen feet
high. cannot Eold the books of the British
museum
1t has been calculated that If SO 000, 900 per-
sons should clasp hands they could reach
around the globe.
Hillsdale, Mich, has q great curiosity in
the shape of buff Cochin chicken with four
legs and four wings.
A fly at Elberon, N. j., in church was the
other day observed to land on bald heads
which represent $161 100000.
A tramp giving the name of George Davis
was arrested in Chambersburg, Pa, after
lively race, for stealing Bible.
A St. Louis (dich.) dentist advertises
weekly the names Of his patients and the
number Of teeth extracted for each.
The first known circulating library is said
to be that Of st. Pamphilus Of Cesarea, who
In 300 A. D. collected 90, 1000 volumes to lend
out.
Seats in the San Francisco stock board are
valued at from 5000 to $1,000. In the days
Of tho mining craze they used to command
$4,000.
The Piute population in Nevada has in
creased nearly 1000 since the census Of 1880.
On that date it WINS 7,700. It Is estimated
now at 9,200.
Leesburg, Ga, has 1--WE men whose nggre-
gate weight is 1880 pounds, and they meas
ure thirty-one feet and five inches, an aver
age height Of six feet and three inches
each.
There is negro man living near Coleman,
Ga, who is the father of thirty-four children.
He is S4 years old, has his third wife with
babe at her breast, and Is as active as most
men at so.
Kenesaw post, G. A. R., of Danville, Ill, has
adopted Pert Zeres and Katie Funk as the
daughters of the post, and have presented
them with blue sashes with gilt letter in
scriptions.
The victims in the Comstock mine have
averaged one o week through the twenty
sayaps years 4hatthe loda has been worked.
At least 400 miners have been sacrificed
there by fire, gas, dead air, falls, caving In,
explosions or accidents to machinery.
The paper in the United States having the
shortest name is The Au, German weekly
published in Milwaukee. That city also pos
sesses the paper with the longest title. 1t is
called Die Deutsche Amerikanische Gewerbe
und Industrie Zeitung: Fortschritt der Zeit.
For sunstroke the simplest remedies are
cold bath and ice applications; for heat ex-
haustion rest and tonic are the best remedies;
for heat apoplexy any treatment aimed ut
drawing the blood from the brain Is the most
useful. 1t is tbst to take medical advice in
order to obtain tho most speedy recovery.
Orc rich in nickel and cobalt has been
found near Hot Springs A tunnel is now
being cut on fine vein north of the town,
and already several hundred tons Of ore are
on the dump. Analysis shows clearly per
cent of nickel, which, it is said, makes this
the richest nickel ore ever found in America.
A St Louis company is working the ores.
Fairmount park Of Philadelphia contains
5000 acres and is eleven miles long. Central
park Of New York includes 834 acres, costing
SIS, 100000 for tho land and improvements
The Chicago parks cover 1000 acres, and
those of st. Louis about the same. Prospect
park, Brooklyn, includes nearly coo acres,
and Druid Hill park Of Baltimore $50 acres.
An analyst who reads character from
handwriting has been examining Gen. Bou-
langer's signature He finds that the writer
has energy and resolution Joined to great
benevolence. Constancy is a marked char
cteristic, while desire to command and
Consciousness of personal worth are also In
icated There is also shown q tendency to
mock at men and things in mildly satirical
way.
Gilbert and Sullivan are said, on the au-
thority Of London newspaper man, who Is
very close to the DOyley Carte management,
to be preparing an opera on an American
subject with special reference to the Wild
West craze, which Buffalo Bill has made
fashionable in England Cowboys, scouts
and good and bad Indians will figure in 1t ex-
tensively, and it will be produced simultane-
ously in London and New York.
An ancient Spanish spur, along with some
pieces Of ancient crockery and portions Of
human skeleton, were plowed up by farm
lahore: near Austin, Tex, the other day.
The spur, rust eaten, is unlike anything else
in this age, and is stated by antiquarians to
belong to the Spanish era of three centuries
ago. 1t is foot from tip to tip, and the
rowel is half foot in diameter. The spur
is supposed to have been worn by the man
portions Of whose bones were found with it.
STORIES OF Chill DREN